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Your Disappointments
Don’t Have to Become Disasters
Bishop Timothy R. Carter
Founder/President, Solution Ministries
[[www.solutionministries.org]]
NKJV
Locate with me John 11
Your Disappointments Don’t Have to Become Disasters
Your disappointments don’t have to become disasters.
In the next few moments we are going to nail this down and flesh it out.
All of us experience disappointments from time to time don’t we?
These disappointments don’t have to become disasters.
Please understand I am not down-playing your difficulties, your disappointments or your tragedies.
Some of your disappointments represent great loss.
I am not trying to minimize your disappointments at all.
What I am saying is that we can rise above our disappointments, above our tragic circumstances.
They don’t have to be our downfall; we don’t have to let disappointments, difficult situations steal our joy, destroy our self esteem, or assassinate our character.
Rather as we commit our self to Christ and rise above them we will build strong character.
Our disappointments don’t have to be catastrophic.
We don’t have to let them determine what we are or what we will become and what our future will be.
Coping:
We have many coping strategies for reacting to our disappointments.
Many times we cope by putting up our defenses.
We say, “boy, I will never be hurt that way again.”
So we love less.
We are afraid of loving because we know that the deeper we love, the greater the pain if we are hurt.
We reject others before they can reject us.
Some of us have been hurt in relationships, we feel that we have been belittled and betrayed.
Some of us are disappointed in our ideas; perhaps our hopes are not being met, our goals are not being fulfilled, our ambitions seem to be destroyed.
Some are disappointed in their career choices; the chosen profession just does not measure up to what we expected.
Maybe because of family situations, some are very disappointed.
I hope that we can realize today that regardless of the disappointments, they do not have to become disasters.
History:
Let’s look at history for a moment to see how others have handled disappointments.
KFC
Harland Sanders was born to a Presbyterian family in Henryville, Indiana.
His father, Wilbur David Sanders, died when Harland was five years old, and—since his mother worked—he was required to cook for his family.
He dropped out of school in seventh grade.
When his mother remarried, he ran away from home because his stepfather beat him.
During his early years, Sanders worked many jobs, including steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, railroad fireman, farmer, and enlisted in the Army
At the age of 40, Sanders cooked chicken dishes and other meals for people who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Kentucky.
Since he did not have a restaurant, he served customers in his living quarters in the service station (“Colonel Sanders.”
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At the age of 65 years-old he would sit in his rocking chair on his front porch in Louisville, Kentucky thinking about his sad life.
Sanders was broke, his only income $105.00
per month in Social Security.
He was very disappointed with his life.
As he sat on his porch having his pity party he began to think about his mother’s home-cooked deep fried chicken.
He decided to try selling his mother’s fried chicken but couldn’t find any buyers.
After many disappointments Sanders met Pete Harman in Salt Lake City, Utah and together they opened the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952.
In 1964, when Sanders was 75 years old, he sold the entire "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchising operation for $2 million dollars.
He did not let his disappointments become disasters (“KFC.”
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Thomas Monaghan
Thomas Monaghan wanted to play short stop for the Detroit Tigers, but because of a widowed mother and financial difficulties at home he had to quit school and get a job to support his family.
He paid his brother’s way through college.
He tried to go to college himself three different times because he wanted to be an architect, but was unable to finish because of difficult circumstances.
Finally he and his brother together bought a small pizza store called “DomiNick's” in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
It was located in a bad part of town.
They could not get customers to come into that part of town to buy their pizzas.
Thomas had the idea that if they would not come to the pizza he would take the pizza to them.
Today this small pizza store is called “Domino's Pizza.”
In 1998 Thomas Monaghan sold his controlling stake in Domino's Pizza to Bain Capital, an investment firm based in Boston, for an estimated $1 billion dollars.
He never became a shortstop for the Detroit Tigers but in 1983 he bought the team and in 1984 they won the World Series (1983-1992).
Thomas Monaghan did not let his disappointments become disasters (“Thomas Monaghan.”
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Lance Armstrong:
Lance Armstrong, a professional road racing cyclist at the age of 25, recognized that possibly his championship cycling days had come to an end when cancer attacked his body in several places.
Yet he refused to let these disappointments to become disasters.
He became more determined to press forward.
He became only person to win the Tour de France seven times.
Actually, he set his record of seven consecutive years from 1999 to 2005 (“Lance Armstrong.”
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WD-40:
In 1953 Norm Larsen designed a formula to prevent corrosion, by displacing the standing water that causes it.
WD-40 stands for "Water Displacement - 40th Attempt" It took Larsen 40 attempts to get it right and only later was it found to have numerous household uses.
He did not let 39 disappointments become disasters (“WD-40.”
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The Word of God:
These are human interest stories but we can look to something more substantial—the Word of God.
Turn with me to John chapter 11.
In this chapter we will see some individuals who experience grave disappointments.
You may know something about this Gospel.
The Gospel of John is called “The Gospel of Belief.”
He always uses the verb “Believe” not the noun “Faith.”
He emphasizes the verb “Believe.”
He uses this verb “Believe” 96 times.
This word is in our passage several times today.
This Book is also called “A Sign Gospel.”
It is called this because John uses the word miracle to show a sign of God’s will or power.
There are other words for miracle.
Mark for example uses the Greek word “δύναμαι” which is to show “Power.”
But John uses this Greek word “ἐξουσία” which is a sign miracle.
It not only accomplishes human need but it points beyond the human need.
It points to an eternal truth.
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